Tau'rus, n.

noun

Tau'rus, n. [Lat., Gr. ταῦρος; Pr. taur, O. Fr. tor, It. & Sp. tauro, toro, Fr. taureau.]

Sense 1. (Astron.) (a.) The Bull; one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the second in order, or that next to Aries. (b.) The second zodiacal constellation, containing the remarkable star named Aldebaran, and the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades.

Sense 2. (Zoöl.) A Linnæan genus to which the common bull, or ox, and cow belong, and for which there is no peculiar name in English.

A drawing of a bull with the Taurus zodiac symbol beneath it. — Taurus and Sign. (1.)